Elizabeth+(Tiz)+Powers

Room: **Cocoa 2**

= Elizabeth (Tiz) Powers =
 * **MACC**
 * **GW-CEEE**
 * **Senior Project Associate**
 * epowers@ceee.gwu.edu

= States of Mind: Coaching Conversation; Prompts that Promote Self-Reflection  =

In this session participants will learn about five states of mind supported by Cognitive Coaching and how these mental habits promote self-reflection and effective teaching. Participants will describe teachers who display these states of mind, and work collegially to generate conversation prompts to support these states of mind in colleagues. Participants will leave the session with an understanding of mental habits that promote self-reflection and effective teaching, as well as the conversation prompts that can be used to promote effective states of mind.

· Participants will learn the five states of mind from Cognitive Coaching and how they support effective teaching. · Participants will be able to describe a teacher displaying these characteristics. · Participants will generate questions and discussion prompts that promote these states of mind and collect question and discussion prompts from colleagues.

=States of Mind from Cognitive Coaching =

=Efficacy = =Flexibility = =Craftsmanship = =Consciousness = =Interdependence =

__Session Materials __


 * Introduction **

[|Cognitive Coaching: A Foundation for Renaissance Schools] - Hardcover (Mar. 2002) by Arthur L. Costa and Robert J. Garmston

Moving Towards Holonomy

[|Talking Head - Not Yet to Holonomous.pdf]


 * Activity #1 - Guess My State of Mind **

Jo will assign your group one of the "States of Mind". Your group will read the appropriate information posted below and create a description of a teacher who displays this state of mind. Describe how a teacher with this state of mind would look and sound like in the classroom and in a staff meeting. Post your description by replying to a post in the discussion tab of this breakout session. Try not to mention the state of mind in your description. We will read each others descriptions and guess the state of mind being described.

[|Quick definition Efficacy.doc] [|Quick definition Flexibility.doc] [|Quick definition Craftsmanship.doc] [|Quick definition Consciousness.doc] [|Quick definition Interdependence.doc]


 * Activity #2 - Prompts to Promote States of Mind **

Jo will assign your group a different state of mind. Your group will read the appropriate information posted below and generate 5 prompts that could support this state of mind in a colleague. Choose 2 or 3 prompts to share with the group by replying to a post in the discussion tab of this breakout session.

[|Efficacy for prompts.pdf] [|Flexibility for prompts.pdf] [|Craftsmanship for prompts.pdf] [|Consciousness for prompts.pdf]

I observed that you provided the opportunity for various viewpoints. Did you mentally rehearse the process you use?

[|Interdependence for prompts.pdf]


 * Closing **

[|Talking Head - Existing to Desired State.pdf]